Buckle a-nd loop



(No Model.)

P. A. NEIDER.

BUCKLE AND LOOP. No. 309,156. Patented Dec. 9.1884

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rnnn A. Hume, on AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY.

BUCKLE AND LOOP.

:ElFI EQIFICATION forming part of llietters Patent No 309,156, dated December 9, 1884:.

Application filed October 13, 183 1. (No model.)

To (I/ZZ whom it may concernl:

Be it known that l, FRED A. Nnrnnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Augusta, in the county of Bracken and State of Kentucky, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Buckle and Loop, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is a combined buckle and loop that can be cheaply produced and quickly secured to the back-stay or ourtain of the carriage, for which purpose it is especially designed. It is an improvement upon the buckle and loop for which Letters Patent were granted to me June 10, 1884, No. 300,111.

In the form of buckle clip or strap shown in my said patent the points by which the buckle, strap, and loop were secured tothe curtain or back-stay were struck up from the same piece of metal which formed the clip. As the clip is made of thin sheet metal these fastening-points had to be made of considerable width in order to prevent their straightening out when a strain was brought upon the buckle, and also to give sufficient body to the male die to prevent its breaking when punching several thicknesses of metal. I overcome these objections by omitting the tongues or fastening-clips from my present buckle-clip blank, which effects a great saving of metal, as well as requiring less expensive dies, and I use in place of the fastening-tongues, which required slits to be first made in the leather for attaching my former loop, the common pointed clinching-tack or clout-nail, which I first pass through a perforation in one end of the blank. The nail is held in place by the opposite end of the blank when bent over after the buckle is inserted.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar parts are indicated by similar reference-letters wherever they occur, Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section of a buckle and loop embodying inyinvention, shown attached to the curtain or back-stay of a carriage. Fig.

2 is a vertical transverse section of the same,

taken through the line 00 w of Fig. 1, showing the tack before the point is clinched down. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the buckle and clip detached from the loop. Fig. 4c is the stamped-out blank from which the buckle-clip is formed. 5 is an inverted plan view of an open-ended bucklc loop provided with my improvements. Fig.6 is aplan view of a clip blank adapted to receive a buckle at each end.

The box-loop A is of the usual form, and may be made of thin sheet metal, leather, or other suitable material, stamped or formed to the proper shape. The metal clip Bis stamped out to the form shown in Fig. 4: if a single buckle is to be attached to it, or to the form shown in Fig. 6 if it is to receive two buckles. After it is stamped out the wings I) are turned up at a right angle to the central part in suitable forming-dies. The tack C is now inserted through the perforation near the end of the partially-formed blank, the point projecting up in the same direction as the wings b, and the tongue of buckle D passed through the slot (1. The blank is then doubled over, as shown clearly in Fig. 3, the tack-head coming between the folds securing it firmly in place. One of these clips with the buckle attached is inserted in each end of the box-loop A, thus eompletin g the buckle and. loop shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5.

The blank, Fig. (3, is formed up and the buckles and tacks secured in place in the same manner as above described; but the clip and buckles are secured to the loop permanently as follows: Elefore the loop A is completely forinedthat is, when its sides are bent at right angles to the top, forming a threesided boxthe clip and its buckles are inserted with the edges of the wings I) resting upon the insideof the loop-top. The edges of the loop are hen bent down upon the bottom of the clip, confining it in place, and formin g a square tube with a buckle at each end. I

To secure my buckle and loop in place, the tacks are forced through the goods E of the curtain or back-stay and clinched down upon the opposite side; the point of the tack, turning as it is hammered over, enters the goods, and makes a very secure fastening. The wings I), resting against the top of the loop, will sustain the metal of the clip while it is being clinched.

It will be seen that in applying my buckle and loop it is not necessary to first measure the places where the slits are to be made, as when the flat clinches are used. It is only necessary to place the device in the proper position and force the points through, and as the points return into or through the goods they are not liable to straighten out by any strain applied to the buckle. I have also shown 5 in the drawings a thin metal plate, F, on the inside of the goods E, through which the tacks pass before being clinched down. This adds to the strength,but is not absolutely essential, as my clinching-points make a very 1o secure fastening without it.

WVhat I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent herein, is-

1. The clip for holding the buckle folded, as described, and provided with the tacks C, pass- 15 iugthrough'thelower foldof the clip, and hav- 

